The in-stadium PA announcer for the running events in Sacramento is absolutely atrocious. Not only is he commentating as if he's on television (PA announcing is meant to be completely different), but he's getting so many things wrong left and right. No breaks. Just 33 minutes of a guy blabbering stream of consciousness thoughts into a microphone. He even editorialized at the end, refering to himself and his opinions on who looked the best in the race. Completely inappropriate for PA announcing.
I mean realistically there was a documented and very blatant honest effort violation. Just like you don't get to declare and then not participate, you also do not get to declare and then make no honest competitive effort. Here the athlete made no effort to hide it at all. Not sure it has ever been applied, but it is misconduct and I do not know how much more obvious it can be.
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I mean realistically there was a documented and very blatant honest effort violation. Just like you don't get to declare and then not participate, you also do not get to declare and then make no honest competitive effort. Here the athlete made no effort to hide it at all. Not sure it has ever been applied, but it is misconduct and I do not know how much more obvious it can be.
There is no longer an honest effort rule in the NCAA rulebook. I only learned this a few weeks ago at our conference championship meet. Given that, I don't see what rule a coach would cite when filing a protest.
Something clearly needs to be done as this type of situation tonight is bad for the sport. But until there is a new, clear, and enforceable rule, we will continue to see things like this.
I mean realistically there was a documented and very blatant honest effort violation. Just like you don't get to declare and then not participate, you also do not get to declare and then make no honest competitive effort. Here the athlete made no effort to hide it at all. Not sure it has ever been applied, but it is misconduct and I do not know how much more obvious it can be.
You can also say the same thing about Allie Jones of USC in the long jump, who was a no show. She's already in the heptathlon.
Thanks for the info. I guess that explains why she was willing to be so obvious about it. It does not explain why she didn't scratch during the declaration period. Clearly a substitute rule is needed.
The top 5 in the 10K keep battling to take lead and for what reason?
They were putting in an honest effort unlike the east regional.
Technically, these races are no longer even regionals, they are just prelim heats for nationals. No region champ, no all region team. So really not much incentive to go fast.
I mean realistically there was a documented and very blatant honest effort violation. Just like you don't get to declare and then not participate, you also do not get to declare and then make no honest competitive effort. Here the athlete made no effort to hide it at all. Not sure it has ever been applied, but it is misconduct and I do not know how much more obvious it can be.
There is no longer an honest effort rule in the NCAA rulebook. I only learned this a few weeks ago at our conference championship meet. Given that, I don't see what rule a coach would cite when filing a protest.
Something clearly needs to be done as this type of situation tonight is bad for the sport. But until there is a new, clear, and enforceable rule, we will continue to see things like this.
there still is a reference to an "honest effort" however all it says now is you have to compete in an honest manner which is pretty vague.